The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications

By: Rick Battagline

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Synopsis: A a thorough, practice-based introduction to WebAssembly. Learn how to create high-performing, lightning-fast websites and applications. WebAssembly is the fast, compact, portable technology that optimizes the performance of resource-intensive web applications and programs. The Art of WebAssembly is designed to give web developers a solid understanding of how it works, when to use it (and when not to), and how to develop and deploy WebAssembly apps. First you&’ll learn how to optimize and compile low-level code, debug and evaluate WebAssembly, and represent WebAssembly in the human-readable WebAssembly Text (WAT) format. Once you have the basics down, you&’ll build a browser-based collision detection program, work with browser rendering technologies to create graphics and animations, and see how WebAssembly interacts with other web languages. You&’ll also learn how to: • Embed WebAssembly applications in web browsers and Node.js • Use browser debuggers to evaluate your WebAssembly code • Format variables, loops, functions, strings, data structures, and conditional logic in WAT • Manipulate memory • Build a program that generates graphical objects and detects when they collide • Evaluate the output of a WebAssembly compiler The Art of WebAssembly will help you make sense of this powerful technology to boost the performance of your web applications.